I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWe have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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